02-17-2006, 04:07 AM
The only place that I have seen albinos is in the Unita mountain lakes. They are fun to watch swimming around. I have only caught 2 or 3 of them, but then I am a crummy fisherman and don't catch many fish in the first palce. Cost wise: raising natural color rainbows is the same as raising albino rainbows. I have forgotten the actual number, but about 75% of planted trout don't live longer than 30 days. They starve because they don't recognize natural foods, they don't know enough to hide from predators, and anglers take them home. Albinos face the additional di
vantage of being very visible. If they do survive long enough to spawn, the fry and fingerlings get eaten before natural colored fish. For my part, in the long term picture, I can do without albinos.
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vantage of being very visible. If they do survive long enough to spawn, the fry and fingerlings get eaten before natural colored fish. For my part, in the long term picture, I can do without albinos.[signature]